Controversial case of Wang Shujin re-opened in Handan (6/7)

Zhang Huanzhi arrives at the Handan Intermediate People's Court in Handan City, north China's Hebei Province, July 10, 2013. The trial of Wang Shujin, a man from Hebei who has confessed to crimes for which another man has already been executed, re-opened here on Wednesday. Nie Shubin was executed in 1995 at the age of 21 for the 1994 rape and murder of a woman in the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang. After Wang was apprehended by police in 2005 for three separate rape and murder cases, he confessed to also having raped and murdered the woman in Shijiazhuang. Nie Shubin's mother, 68-year-old Zhang Huanzhi, had pinned her hopes on having her son exonerated. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)